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The current Bulletin of the Entomological Society of France 

 records that Mr. E. Gounelle has made a donation of 500 francs 

 towards the publication fund of the Society, Avhilst the annual sub- 

 ventions from the Ministers of Education and of Agriculture amount 

 respectively to 500 and 570 francs. 



No award has been made this year in connection with the " Prix 

 Constant." 



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City of London Entomological Society. — Noreiiibcr -Lth, 1908.— 

 Exhibits : Triphaena comes, the hindwings clouded with black, Folke- 

 stone, July, 1908, Mr. R. G. Benton. Pieris rapae, bred from Rcdhill 

 larvfe, the pupfB of which had been subjected to alternate spells of 

 high and Ioav temperatures. The imagines showed an intensification 

 of the yellow coloration on the undersides, thus resembling Scotch 

 specimens, Dr. G. G. C. Hodgson. Smerinthus hybr. hybridus 

 {Smerintliits occllata <? X S. popitli 2 ), the percentage of females 

 being very small, Mr. L. W. Newman. The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows 

 stated that, of the examples he had examined, one male only appeared 

 to be fully- developed, while nine apparent females were all more or 

 less gynandromorphous. He observed, from an examination of the 

 genitalia of the " wasters," that the amount of gynandromorphism 

 was remarkable. No two appeared to be alike, some specimens being 

 nearly ^ , some nearly J , and intermediates ; so far, no true perfect 

 $ has been observed, but one ^ appeared to be truly that sex ; of 

 course, its ancillary appendages are entirely different from those of 

 either parent. He further observed that the hybrids contained an 

 enormous quantity of fat. The peculiar condition of the ancillary 

 appendages is on all fours with Mr. Newman's observations and, 

 perhaps, partly explains his difficulty about the autenna3 of these 

 gynandromorphs being sometimes nearly J- , sometimes nearly 

 $ ; Mr. Burrows has not yet had to do with one specimen with 

 true 2 genitalia. Pieris brassic.f., with a partial narrow black 

 border upon the hindwings, from Surrey, Mr. A. E. Tonge. Noveinher 

 18th, 1908. — Exhibits: Nonagria edelsteni, Tutt (neurica, Schmidt), 

 from Sussex, new to the British list, also N. uetirica, Hb., and its 

 var. dissoluta, Tr., from various localities, Mr. H. M. Edelsten. Thya- 

 TiRA batis, with the usual pink coloration replaced by brown (Linne's 

 type), and Miana strigilis, with red central fascia and white marginal 

 band ; both from Ashford, Kent, 1908, Mr. G. H. Heath. Anthrocerids, 

 from one Surrey locality, mainly Anihrocera trifolii and A. hippocrepidis, 

 Stphs., including several melanic examples of the former; one example, 

 apparently A. hippocrepidis, with right hindwing resembling that of 

 A. purpii.ralis {)iiinos), Dr. G. G. C. Hodgson. Plebeius ^gon, a series 

 from Eynsford, July, 1908, including a blue female, Mr. V. E. Shaw. 

 Amphidasys betularia and var. doubledayaria, bred from a female of 

 the latter form taken at Wicken, Mr. P. H. Tautz. Polygonia c-album. 

 — A long series of bred specimens, including a few with the C trans- 

 formed into a D, Mr. L. W. Newman. Paper. — Mr. L. W. Newman 

 read some interesting notes on his observations made while breeding 

 Ptdyffonia c-album, and recorded the following as facts observed : — (a) 

 The first ten to fifteen ova laid by a female in the spring produced var. 



